Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-29
The Rush to California.

Ariz0nians who watch the incoming and outgoing of the Southern Pacific trains, can have but little idea of the | rush ihst Is now being made towards l California, the great bulk of travel ! going over the Atlantic and Pacific, US may be seen from the following, taken fro u the Santa Fe New Mexican of the 22l instant:
 Within the past ten days upwards of 5000 people have passed down the main line of the A. T. < 5. E. en route to Cal iiornia. Last nights west bound train was run in three sections, and about l,500 people were on board. Some of the-e told a citizen of Santa Fe that they had been waiting at Kansas City four days ID order to secure 6n opportunity to come west over the Santa Fe. The scenes which occur daily aud nightly at tie Kansas City Union depot are de sc!lbed ss the most remarkable in the history of the west. Tie immigrants and tourists pack ths depot apartments and platforms like 6 mob of excited elec tors snd every body engages in 8 mad rush and scramble to fad seat on the west bound tr6Ins. As for the baggage, the Santa Fe company have been totally unable 10 handle II, and every available space about tEe depot IS piled high with it. The CalifornIs craze seems to have no end. Thousands have gone hence; thousands are en route, and still they come. The Sants Fe company have already sold 15,OO0 CaliicrBis tickets. and tine passenger agents of the various trgnscontInentsl lines estimate that up wards of 200 0O0 people will visit Cslitor- nIs this winter Many of these will re- turn, but the railroads and the people O. Californis are doing their best to have the bulk of them locate here.
 GREAT CUT.
 The recent circular letter of the Southern Pacific Company Co the various srausoontlnentsl lines, advocating that the California terminal lines buy up the return portion of tickets 10 Califorhis. winch are now selling si SO with . FIX months limit, for S20, in order to keep these return portions out of the hnnds of scslpers and induce those who go west to settle m California. has been the means of precipita;ing great vsr on trsnscontinentsl rates that ought to benefit all sections of the west. This move was direct stab at the Santa Fe company, and from passengers vho came in from Kansas City lsss night i. is learned that the war is on in earnest. The Santa Fe md UnIon Pacific are both crowding the fight. Al first they made the west bound rate from Missouri river $40, but within three days past this hss been cut to S30, and many of those who went through last night are enjoying the luxury of riding from Kansas City to the Pacific coast at this figure. It IS thought the Southern Pacific will now carry out its threat Co haul California messengers from the middle and western states for Sl5.
 RAIL BOOM NOTES.
 The Kansas newspapers have called the turn. Next year the Rock Island will build through Taos valley, through the city Of Santa Fe, and 20 west via she Chams valley.
 Since the lst of January the A. II. X $. F. Company has raised SjO,OOO,COO-s larger sum than was ever raised Tor railroad company in the world in ssIngle year. , ,,ben will the New Mexico Central be- g,n work on that 1880 miles of new road in this territory which its new charter calls for?
 With the D. 6 R. a., Rock Island and AT.kS. F. all striving to occupy the Cbans- route. Sants Fe's railroad out look oould scarcely be more tisttering. Sauts Fe will supply the northwest uhichever one of these lines gets up The Chsms first-for il is trade territory which exclusively belongs to this city